Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Ttfc GAMECOCK ?r- ' j Published on Friday of every week during the college year / by the Literary Societies under the supervision of the Board of Publicationa-of the University of South Carolina. Entered as second class mail matter at the Columbia, South Carolina, postoflice bn November 20, 1908. Member of South .Carolina College Press Association. < Member of National College Press Association News articles may be contributed by any member of the student body, but must be in by Wednesday night before Friday's publication. All copy must be typewritten, double-spaced, and must be signed by the writer. Articles in the Open Forum will be published at the discretion of the Editor and in the order in which they are submitted, with the name of the author signed. , SUBSCRIPTION RATE?$1.50 PER COLLEGE YEAR :l CIRCULATION?2150 COPIES ? Advertising rates furnished upon request __ Offices in the basement of the Extension Building Gamecock office phone?8123, No. 11 ___ _ Wilson O. Wei, don - Editor-in-Chief J. Mitchell Morse - - Managing Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS , ' Lewis H. Wallace - - - - - - Associate Editor LeRoy M. Want - - - - - - -x - Associate Editor Dorothy Penland - - - - - - - Associate Editor Darice Jackson - - - - Associate Editor William I. Latham - - Assistant Managing Editor John A. Giles - - - - Assistant Managing Editor EDITORIAL STAFF W. B. King - ------- News Editor Allen Rollins - ------ Sports Editor Ray Antley ---------- Alumni Editor Sanders Guignard - -- -- -- -- Exchange Editor J. C. DuPrE - -- -- -- -- - Fraternity Editor James II. Galloway - - - - - - - Y. M. C. A. Editor I Catherine Rem ley - - - - - - Joke Editor Names of heelers do not appear in mast-head. CO-ED Frances Black - -- -- -- -- - Co-Ed Editor Lois Fischer ---- - - -- -- -- News Editor Ethel Galloway - - - - - - - Feature Editor Sarah Acnes Jackson Society Editor BUSINESS W. C. Herbert - ---- - Business Manager Sam Taylor - -- -- -- -- Assistant Manager J. W. Brown _ ----- Assistant Manager CIRCULATION J. Roy Prince Circulation Manager Lester Hamilton - - Assistant Manager Melton Goodstein - - ' - Assistant Manager Hugh Hamilton - - - - - - Assistant Manager " CROWING FOR: News Bureau?"It pays to advertise." 1 Student Activity Building?Student Activities are actually suffering for lack of such. / Student Mass Meetings, and Voluntary Chapel?"Eventually, why not now?" Football Stadium?Large Universities could then be included on our schedule. Paved Sidewalks?Just think of meeting classes on a rainy day, and you, too, will be convinced of their peed. - \_ FRIDAY7DECEMBER 5, 1930 DEARTH OF MATERIAL Not for many years has a senior class at Carolina been lacking so much in leadership material as this year's class. Not said to speak disparagingly of those who occupy the prominent positions and who are the leaders, but to present a few facts which cannot be overlooked. A few seniors?a small number hold the major offices; in fact some hold too many officcs for their own good. This is not the fault of these students, norx)f the class as a whole, but the class is just lacking. As it seems now, no member of the class of '31 is eligible for the Editorship of either of the literary publications on the campus for the second semester. The two bf>y associate editors of The Gamecock are juniors, and the only member of the staff of The Carolinian whb is eligible for its editorship is a junior. The constitution of The Carolinian says that the next Editor of The Carolinian must come from the Clariosophic Literary Society. The Gamecock constitution provides that its editor shall come from among the Associate Editors, two of whom happen to be juniors, while the other two are co-eds. However you may take it, the next editor will have to be a junior or a co-ed who is a senior. Either way precedent will be broken, for in the past the editcfr has never been a junior or a co-ed. The whole thing just goes back to the same old story that Carolina students do not wor)( on the publications in large enough numbers; at least, they have not l)een doing so. At present, there is hope for a change, judging from the heelers of both staffs. There is much talent on this campus which is going to waste. There, are many students who can write well, but who do not care to give of their time for the betterment of these publications and of the University. The work is left for a few to do, and this year's senior class provides a prominent example of such. u. s. c. PRACTICES OF LEADERS For students who have been elected to offices of responsibility by their fellow-students, to indulge in practices that are questionable as to their vjflue, is the height of thoughtlessness and extremely unethical. Those who occupy the prominent positions on the campus should realize that it is their duty to act according to the tenets of honor and to have the characteristics of a gentleman. By their actions they influence other students, especially freshmen, who naturally look up to upperclassmen and those in the prominent positions. Likely it would be a very undesirable name for one to be known as the student who influenced freshmen to follow practices and habits that were not conducive to building of character. We want .leaders Who have strength of character, who can stand up against wrong, and who realize that they owe this to their fellow-students. "AND HOW'S" Now that Josh Cody will not be at Clemson next year, maybe Carolina can beat the Tigers in football. Hope so. It seems that some freshmen do not like to wear "rat" caps. How about some "fat" meetings, sophomores, good peppy ones. We still contend that Carolina is too democratic. Even some of the co-eds are smoking now. Imagine that! Pittsburgh has some big street cars, as to Bill Herbert's way of thinking. A number of boys are casting aside their girl friends at present; Christmas is getting near. ' | 4 MUD MUD MIJD The University has made many advancements in the last^year, with the Palmetto Players being started, the Symphony Orchestra and violin department organized, a new book store and a new canteen oj>ened. Other minor improvements have been made which have beautified the campus, but still we allow a sweet co-ed to put on a nice pair of evening slippers and step out on the campus to go s-o-g deep into the mud when it has been raining. Still we say that paved sidewalks would help?not only the co-eds, but the faculty also; and they must be looked after. u. s. c. < A CATHEDRAL Towering into the sky above surrounding buildings, there is rising on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh a beautiful edifice. It is a Cathedral of Learning which is forty stories high, and is being built in the Gothic style of architecture. This is the exemplification of a new idea in education?new in every detail. This structure will have in it classrooms where students at the University of Pittsburgh will meet many of their classes. Express elevators will carry them from class to class, ft is being erected with funds donated by citizens. The classrooms will be lavishly furnished With rugs on the floor, reclining chairs, and beautiful pieces of art 011 the walls. Truly, it will be a student's palace of Pittsburgh. It is our opiiiion that this will prove to be the test of new ideas in the world of education. If this practice goes over, and is found to be more conducive to study on the j part of the college student, the next quarter of a century will see colleges and universities all oyer the nation building magnificent skyscrapers, and the average campus will closely resemble some business center of a large city. v 1 This new idea may bear fruit, 1 and may be the logical development ' for this century, but we are of the ' opinion that if it does, much of real I college life will be lost, and a large 1 part of the glamour associated with 1 a college campus will Vanish. It will 1 resemble a business proposition too ' much. > i A CREDITABLE EDITION ,1 i Much appreciation and rightful credit-is due the Blue Key fraternity for the new edition of the Student Directory, which recently came from the press. It supplies a need on the campus, and is quite useful I to students as well as faculty members. Editor Culbertson has edited a booklet that is attractive, and wellgotten-up. He is to be congratulated 011 the work which he has vlone, and the students should be thankful for tliis courtesy which the fraternity has shown to the University. A PUBLICITY JOB We are still crowing for some means of disseminating news about the University. What is needed is a press bureau, and if deemed advisable the University authorities ought to present this request at the next session of the Legislature. If this cannot be secured, let's try something else. Why not select some student who is studying journalism under Dean McKissick, and who needs the work, to act as news agent for the school? He could gather news articles here and there on the campus, and send them out to the papers in this State and nearby States. By following this procedure, the University could get some badly needed publicity, and it would hot be so expensive. Furman University is planning to follow this method, and is holding competitive try-outs to select the student who is best suited for the I job. We want more publicity; it is needed. Give a deserving student the job. u. s. c. A TRIUMPH The Gamecock feels sur.e that its readers will share its pride and joy of accomplishment in winning first place as a college weekly publication in the contest of the National College Press Association. Although it w<tw only made a member at the just-past session, it has walked away with one of the most enviable honors in the gift of the association. In thinking of this triumph, one cannot help but remember that it is, after all, only one of a long list of similar ones. For five straight years the past editors of this paper had kept it on such a plane of journalistic excellence that it was awarded each time first place in the state contest. Last year was the only recent contest in which this honor was taken from The Gamecock. At this writing it is impossible to tell which publication will be declared the best in the stale by the Soflth Carolina College Press Association, meeting in Spartanburg Thursday and Friday of this week. However, the recent acheivement of this paper should entitle it to the utmost consideration against any competition. Lest it let its enthusiasm and joy I ? 'a ~ V. 1.- v MT-, itV-VkXW = 1 . i run away with it, this editorial will close with an editorial quotation from The State on the siibject: "The Gamecock, weekly newspaper of the University of South Carolina has just been awarded first place as a campus weekly in the national college press association, the award having been announced at the meeting of the 'organization at the University of Pittsburgh. "The Gamecock has long held high rank as a college paper of South Carolina, having for five years straight ^on first place in the state college press association. This recognition of its worth in a wider field brings honor not only to the staff t>ut also to the institution which the journal represents and indirectly to ihe parent state of South Caroling. " "The State congratulates its contemporary and wishes for it even bigger and better things {han are marked by this highly creditable achievement." u. s. c-? OPEN FORUM Mr. Editor: ' This letter is not meant as unfair criticism, the writer well knows that the heads of the various publication departments have much to contend with in their efforts to give ?ood service. I do not question that the attempts to give this service are tnade, but there is no question about the fact that the campus circulation 3f The Gamiccock and The Carolinian is not as efficient as should be the case. Quite frequently Tiie Gamecock is not delivered in some of the dormitories, possibly -depending on which of the assistant managers falls down on the job. Whether the fault lies with these assistants, the manager, or the freshmen, tlie writer is unable to say, but if the University has outgrown the old system, it is up to the circulation department to effect a change for the better. / 8 " As for The Carolinian, the writer knows that the first and only issue of the year has ne*er been delivered in certain sections of the campus.. Its distribution has been most ineffective and inefficient The majority of students have not received a copy. The above are only the compilations of my own observations and the remarks of njy fellowstudents. If I am mistaken in my interpretation ,of any of the sup- ' posed facts, I stand open to correction. LeRoy M. Waat. [Drink I Delicious and Refresl Put the in Grir \ LliTEN Grant land Rice Sport* Champion* Coca-Col Orchestra-w Every Wodneada IOiSO to 11 p. m. E. S. T.-m?m, Coaat to Com* NBC Netwocfc \ 9 MILLION' A DA \ ' \ '< ' : iA : y,. 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